Word: accents
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early days as a singer-composer, Jimmy Buffett did some of his best work in grocery stores. "I was a good shoplifter," he recalls, emphasizing good in his soft Alabama accent. Buffett barely earned beer-and-cracker money in the 1960s, playing hotels and red-walled cocktail lounges...
Hohenzollern Prince. In The Mystery of B. Traven (128 pages; William Kaufmann; $6.95), American Journalist Judy Stone tells of a series of interviews with Hal Groves, wangled in the years just before his death. "Forget the man!" he demanded, speaking with a slight German accent. "What does it matter if he is the son of a Hohenzollern prince or anyone else? Write about his works. Write how he is against anything which is forced upon human beings, including Communism or Bolshevism." Hiding behind age and deafness, he stopped just short of admitting that he was Traven, Torsvan or Marut. Deference...
...Like the bestseller on which it was based, Black Sunday has aspirations toward being a grand-scale detective story. From the start, the Israelis and U.S. officials know that some big game is afoot, and they keep plodding along two or three steps behind Mastermind Keller (whose heavy German accent requires a great deal of unpersuasive explanation if she is to be passed off as an Arab) and her weird companion. Along the way Dern, who had broken down trying to make the transition from North Vietnamese prison camp to civilian status in the U.S., gets to do some nice...
Dajer is the most relaxed moving on stage. More careful direction could have helped the others. Elena Gragnalia slurs her authentic Italian accent maternally, yet as the landlady Isabel, she is reduced to desultory shuffling. Ponderous pauses mar Alan Fink's performance as Dr. Rappacini. He seems to have been set out to graze in his garden, talking to his vegetative creations with no sharp sinisterness. Even if he cares for his daughter, he's supposed to be a man who is imperious if not self-deifying. Fink improves at the end to bellow like the God of Genesis...
...housewife active in Democratic Party politics in Pacific Palisades, Calif: "There is something I'm beginning to like about Carter. The low-keyed, anti-folderol approach. I still mistrust his Baptist fundamentalist upbringing and the whole thing about his being a Southerner. But I must admit the accent is bothering me less than...